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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER
OF HEALTH.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District Council of
Harrow.
Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Roberts and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit the Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary
Circumstances of the District for the year 1944.
The health of the district during the year was again most satisfactory,
most of the vital statistics being an improvement even on those of the
year 1943. The infant mortality rate was 34 (last year 38.0; national
rate 46) and the maternal mortality rate 0.56 (2.57 in 1943; national
rate 2.03). The birth rate rose to 18.7, so exceeding last year's figure
which was the highest recorded for the district. On the other hand
the death rate also showed a slight rise to the figure of 9.3 (9.1 last year;
national rate 11.6). None of the notifiable infectious diseases exhibited
an epidemic prevalence while the death rates of these infections were
mostly smaller than the national figures.
In addition to the submission of the report in its usual form, this
year in a separate chapter the health of the district throughout the war
years has been reviewed. After that follows another chapter in which
are considered those changes which have already been brought about,
those which might happen, and certain other aspects respecting the local
health services.
I have the honour to be,
Mrs. Roberts and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
CARYL THOMAS,
Medical Officer of Health.
Council Offices,
Harrow-on-the-Hill.
July 7th, 1945.